Fusillade
[,fjuːzɪ'leɪd;-'lɑːd]
Definition
(noun.) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; 'our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise'.
(verb.) attack with fusillade.
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Definition
(n.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
(v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
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Definition
n. a simultaneous or continuous discharge of firearms.—v.t. to shoot down by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.—n. Fusillā′tion death by shooting.
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Examples
- A cruiser awaits above at your own dock; let us leave at-- A fusillade of shots from the palace gardens just without cut short his further words. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He found himself very soon the subject of a fusillade. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At all events it drew from him a furious fusillade of artillery and musketry, plainly heard but not felt by us. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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